My biggest fear is that it'll be Lamar. Bengals seem to have a horrible history against rookies getting their first start.

Why? You got something against Candace Cameron-Bure or Lacey Chabert? :lol2:

Well said BM. Without Vigil, Burfict and Dennard...the Bengals D really had no chance. The Saints survived the Rams D-line last week, so even our best aspect (defensively) really had no impact. I never heard Dunlap's name called once, and Geno's only twice, I believe. Offensively, well...we see what happens when there's no Green and no Eiffert. The thing that surprised me, though, was how fast we got away from running Mixon. Did he get...

While I understand why he got it...I don't like it. If someone had played only 60 games at the beginning of the year and put up the same stats that he had, but got injured for the rest of the year (instead of playing a different position)...I don't think they'd have won. It should take more than around 200 AB's to determine who the best hitter is.

Enjoyed that this matchup finally happened, as I regularly root for both schools. But, man, that first half was hard to watch. UC was 4-28 in the field at the break? You're not, (nor probably should you) going to win many games shooting 14%. Glad to see things picked up for both squads in the second half.

Of those not mentioned by UKMF... Eli Manning (3) Case Keenum (3) Blake Bortles (3) Joe Flacco (2) Sam Darnold (1) Only Josh Rosen, Ryan Tannehill and Josh Allen are left with no 300 yard passing games.

I think the Iowa loss was certainly more surprising to me. This one, I hate to say it, I saw coming. There were too many instances of things in the preceeding weeks that never got fixed. It was just a matter of time. And truth be told, if they don't address these issues, this won't be their only loss either. In all honesty, I have to wonder now if Bosa didn't see this coming as well. Figured that they weren't likely to make the playoffs,...

I like the hire. Was actually surprised we didn't hear more about him when he first interviewed.

Passed a sign on the way to Asheville for 2.44. I think we were still in Tennessee at the time.

Already had arrangements made. Spending the nights under the stars at a campground at Lake James State Park. Three nights for less than 60 bucks. Leaves us with some spare change to visit Biltmore with.

The Massillon-McKinley game is the high school equivalent of OSU-Michigan. Unreal. Usually 15-20,000 there for the game.

Honestly, I wish I was. I wish this was some sort of reverse-psychology type of approach. But, I just have this bad feeling about this game. The type that they SHOULD win. The defense makes me want to pull my hair out. I don't know if it's technique, concentration, execution, experience, or game planning that's causing it, but they get gashed waaaay too much.

Well, everyone's got to eat...so, if you've got any favorites, let me know. Biltmore is definitely on the list. I think I'm putting Mt. Mitchell on it as well. We're staying just a little east of there, in the Lake James State Park, so it'd be somewhat on the way to/from Asheville anyway. As far as rain goes (knock on wood), the only thing it looks like right now is early, early Saturday morning (4a-7a)...outside of that, looks mostly...

I'll say it...I think the Buckeyes get beat. The defense flat out stinks for a #2 team in the country, and offensively, the run game seems to be slowly disappearing. Haskins really hasn't had any "rookie" type of games, which makes me worry that if/when he does, things will be very, very bad. (Think Iowa 2.0) Like you, I hope I'm wrong.

Was hoping the hoodie would be able to find some weakness to exploit with Mahomes, and that the Bengals could copy that blueprint this following week. But heck, I think Cincinnati can give up 40 on their own. :lol2: In all honesty, if the Bengals hold KC to ONLY 40, I think we'll be lucky.

Don't eat anything before you watch the Ohio State game, you'll likely get sick from watching it. Talk about a team playing bad defense. Geeez. And, I agree...if you tell me we hold Pittsburgh to 20 points through 59 minutes, I like out chances.